2011–12 ACB season

ACB
Champions	FC Barcelona (17th title)
Runners-up	Real Madrid
Semifinalists	Valencia Caja Laboral
Relegated	Asefa Estudiantes Blancos de Rueda Valladolid
Teams	18
Games played	34
Duration	8 October 2011 – 16 June 2012
Awards
MVP	Andy Panko
Finals MVP	Erazem Lorbek
Rising Star	Micah Downs
Best Coach	Xavier Pascual
Statistical leaders
PIR	James Augustine 18.6
Points	Andy Panko 18.9
Rebounds	James Augustine 8.3
Assists	Javi Rodríguez 6.2
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 ACB season is the 29th season of the Liga ACB, called also Liga Endesa due to sponsorship reasons.^[1]

The regular season started on 8 October 2011 and ended on 6 May 2012. Playoffs started on 17 May 2011 and ended on 16 June.^[2] FC Barcelona Regal won their 17th title, the second in a row.

Teams and venues

Relegated to LEB Oro
- CB Granada (17th)
- Menorca Bàsquet (18th)

Promoted from LEB Oro
- CB Murcia (Champion)
- Blu:sens Monbús (2nd)

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	Last season	Head coach	Season
Asefa Estudiantes	Madrid	Palacio de los Deportes	15,000	11th	Trifón Poch	1st
Assignia Manresa	Manresa	Nou Congost	5,000	15th	Jaume Ponsarnau	6th
Banca Cívica	Sevilla	Palacio San Pablo	10,200	11th	Joan Plaza	3rd
Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	Valladolid	Polideportivo Pisuerga	6,300	9th	Roberto González	1st
Blu:sens Monbús	Santiago de Compostela	Multiusos Fontes do Sar	6,000	2nd (LEB Oro)	Moncho Fernández	2nd
CAI Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Príncipe Felipe Arena	12,000	10th	José Luis Abós	3rd
Caja Laboral	Vitoria-Gasteiz	Fernando Buesa Arena¹	15,374	4th	Duško Ivanović	9th (4th)
FC Barcelona Regal	Barcelona	Palau Blaugrana	8,250	1st	Xavi Pascual	5th
FIATC Mutua Joventut	Badalona	Palau Municipal d'Esports	12,500	13th	Salva Maldonado	1st
Gescrap Bizkaia	Bilbao	Bilbao Arena	10,000	2nd	Fotis Katsikaris	3rd
Gran Canaria 2014	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria	Centro Insular de Deportes	5,000	6th	Pedro Martínez	6th (3rd)
Lagun Aro GBC	San Sebastián	San Sebastián Arena	11,000	14th	Sito Alonso	1st
Lucentum Alicante	Alicante	Centro de Tecnificación	5,425	16th	Txus Vidorreta	2nd
Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	Fuenlabrada	Fernando Martin	5,000	7th	Porfirio Fisac	1st
Real Madrid	Madrid	Palacio de los Deportes	15,000	3rd	Pablo Laso	1st
UCAM Murcia	Murcia	Palacio de Deportes de Murcia	7,500	1st (LEB Oro)	Óscar Quintana	1st
Unicaja	Málaga	Martín Carpena	10,500	8th	Luis Casimiro	1st
Valencia Basket	Valencia	Fuente San Luis	9,000	5th	Velimir Perasović	1st

¹Caja Laboral plays at Iradier Arena during Fernando Buesa Arena extension to 15,000 seats.

Managerial changes

Before the start of the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Valencia Basket	Svetislav Pešić	End of contract	Paco Olmos	6 June 2011^[3]
Real Madrid	Emanuele Molin	End of contract	Pablo Laso	22 June 2011^[4]
FIATC Mutua Joventut	Pepu Hernández	Sacked	Salva Maldonado	4 July 2011^[5]
Lagun Aro GBC	Pablo Laso	Signed by Real Madrid	Sito Alonso	19 July 2011^[6]
Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	Porfirio Fisac	End of contract	Luis Casimiro	20 July 2011^[7]
Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	Salva Maldonado	Mutual consent	Porfirio Fisac	1 August 2011^[8]
Asefa Estudiantes	Luis Casimiro	Sacked	Pepu Hernández	2 August 2011^[9]

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Position in table
Valencia Basket	Paco Olmos	Sacked	22 January 2012^[10]	Velimir Perasović	26 January 2012^[11]	9th (8–9)
UCAM Murcia	Luis Guil	Sacked	30 January 2012^[12]	Óscar Quintana	31 January 2012^[13]	17th (4–14)
Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	Luis Casimiro	Sacked	30 January 2012^[14]	Roberto González	1 February 2012^[15]	18th (4–14)
Asefa Estudiantes	Pepu Hernández	Mutual consent	6 March 2012^[16]	Trifón Poch	7 March 2012^[17]	17th (6–16)
Unicaja	Chus Mateo	Sacked	19 March 2012^[18]	Luis Casimiro	20 March 2012^[19]	10th (13–12)

Regular season

League table

#	Teams	P	W	L	PF	PA	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Barcelona Regal	34	29	5	2639	2232	Qualified for the Playoffs
2	Real Madrid	34	26	8	2829	2513
3	Caja Laboral	34	23	11	2545	2384
4	Valencia Basket	34	20	14	2531	2401
5	Lagun Aro GBC	34	19	15	2664	2578
6	Gescrap Bizkaia	34	19	15	2642	2615
7	Banca Cívica	34	18	16	2523	2460
8	Lucentum Alicante	34	18	16	2352	2439
9	Unicaja	34	17	17	2509	2562
10	CAI Zaragoza	34	16	18	2404	2454
11	FIATC Mutua Joventut	34	16	18	2493	2562
12	Assignia Manresa	34	15	19	2497	2559
13	Blu:sens Monbús	34	13	21	2405	2481
14	Gran Canaria 2014	34	13	21	2268	2395
15	UCAM Murcia	34	13	21	2439	2512
16	Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	34	12	22	2414	2585
17	Asefa Estudiantes	34	11	23	2394	2573	Relegation to LEB Oro
18	Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	34	9	25	2349	2592	Relegation to LEB Oro

Source: ACB

Positions by round

Team\Round
	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
FC Barcelona Regal	5	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Real Madrid	1	5	3	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Caja Laboral	3	3	9	10	7	6	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Valencia Basket	11	6	11	6	5	5	7	6	4	6	7	7	7	7	7	7	9	8	10	9	8	10	8	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	6	5	5	4
Lagun Aro GBC	12	15	17	18	15	16	13	14	16	17	15	13	11	9	8	10	8	7	6	8	6	6	4	4	6	5	4	5	6	5	8	8	6	5
Gescrap Bizkaia	13	9	6	11	9	9	9	11	10	10	9	8	8	10	11	11	10	9	8	6	7	8	11	10	8	6	6	6	5	7	5	4	4	6
Banca Cívica	16	7	4	7	6	8	6	5	7	8	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	10	10	9	7	9	7	10	8	7	7	6	4	6	7	7
Lucentum Alicante	6	13	10	5	4	4	5	7	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	5	6	8	5	9	7	8	8	8	7	7	8	8
Unicaja	2	2	1	1	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	3	3	4	5	4	4	4	5	7	10	8	10	9	11	11	12	12	11	9
CAI Zaragoza	9	12	8	12	13	14	11	10	11	12	11	11	9	8	9	8	11	10	9	7	9	7	9	6	9	7	9	10	9	9	9	9	10	10
FIATC Mutua Joventut	15	11	13	15	12	15	17	12	14	11	13	15	14	14	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	12	12	14	11	12	12	12	11	11	9	11
Assignia Manresa	4	4	7	4	8	7	8	8	9	9	10	12	13	12	12	12	12	12	11	12	11	11	10	11	11	11	12	11	10	10	10	10	12	12
Blu:sens Monbús	7	10	5	9	10	13	16	17	17	13	16	14	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	13	16	15	14	13
Gran Canaria 2014	17	18	14	16	16	17	14	15	12	14	12	10	12	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	14	14	14	14	12	13	13	14	14	13	13	13	14
UCAM Murcia	14	16	18	14	17	12	15	16	13	15	17	17	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	16	15	16	16	15
Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	18	17	15	8	11	11	10	9	8	7	8	9	10	11	10	9	7	11	12	11	12	12	12	13	13	13	14	14	13	15	14	14	15	16
Asefa Estudiantes	8	14	16	13	14	10	12	13	15	16	14	16	17	15	13	14	15	15	15	16	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	17
Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	10	8	12	17	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18

Source: ACB

Results

	ASE	ASS	BCS	BRV	OBR	CAI	CLA	FCB	CJB	GBB	GCA	GBC	ALI	MCF	RMB	UCM	UNI	VBC
Asefa Estudiantes		76–70	64–77	69–62	79–62	67–63	54–74	65–80	56–71	69–71	61–52	62–58	68–76	72–76	90–85	80–86	75–84	71–69
Assignia Manresa	78–75		76–71	80–75	86–77	74–81	72–70	71–77	71–59	81–73	69–60	74–79	62–76	80–59	93–96	83–74	86–68	68–89
Banca Cívica	89–61	76–65		87–73	79–59	77–64	66–73	81–75	73–77	108–110	75–70	59–63	86–61	97–99	63–98	76–60	68–72	65–58
Blancos de Rueda Valladolid	68–79	79–70	72–77		81–75	58–73	64–76	86–92	86–67	73–81	70–89	89–86	69–57	69–66	72–84	65–76	76–83	74–65
Blu:sens Monbús	61–58	61–49	70–77	63–72		89–84	89–87	83–89	73–60	65–79	65–45	80–88	69–73	77–85	69–83	69–62	71–78	76–62
CAI Zaragoza	75–72	72–71	65–59	75–74	80–71		86–66	49–68	96–73	59–62	63–61	77–86	65–49	80–78	67–84	67–59	76–59	71–63
Caja Laboral	89–74	65–76	73–60	67–65	72–53	75–65		71–60	66–68	100–70	71–67	86–74	65–55	61–51	67–66	71–65	90–68	72–82
FC Barcelona Regal	97–51	74–61	63–66	77–67	71–58	71–68	97–89		82–70	91–72	65–49	77–61	65–49	86–59	86–83	90–53	72–62	76–72
FIATC Mutua Joventut	74–71	92–79	83–65	83–73	73–67	85–63	57–74	52–79		91–67	73–81	70–93	76–62	62–73	78–75	71–65	80–64	81–73
Gescrap Bizkaia	72–66	88–60	67–75	89–77	79–71	68–57	79–80	65–72	78–72		78–72	87–93	73–60	92–81	86–82	95–80	80–83	85–74
Gran Canaria 2014	73–65	63–77	66–74	64–59	84–73	72–62	68–77	93–90	77–71	77–71		45–78	61–53	70–65	60–68	66–54	60–49	63–71
Lagun Aro GBC	103–81	88–82	67–65	71–62	68–71	76–75	81–73	56–71	90–85	76–77	93–78		68–71	86–70	98–90	67–71	92–95	80–86
Lucentum Alicante	65–83	76–70	86–82	91–64	63–64	77–75	72–71	57–83	84–78	81–77	58–55	79–68		66–55	86–92	63–62	77–97	65–70
Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	88–80	73–79	70–75	65–54	63–82	88–95	87–92	56–66	55–72	82–73	69–65	71–63	60–64		57–79	89–73	80–78	68–90
Real Madrid	85–80	83–61	78–65	76–55	81–67	85–71	84–73	78–74	95–82	90–93	90–72	82–74	91–87	88–70		80–79	64–51	81–64
UCAM Murcia	88–75	78–60	65–58	85–56	60–85	76–62	67–75	54–62	76–54	73–69	76–60	85–89	78–82	71–65	60–91		86–77	83–86
Unicaja	67–74	81–96	75–66	78–51	54–69	79–57	79–66	57–89	89–88	78–73	85–68	81–89	72–60	79–65	80–96	87–79		58–68
Valencia Basket	85–71	75–67	80–84	76–59	77–71	82–66	63–68	68–72	90–67	66–63	77–62	69–60	67–70	69–76	83–66	87–80	75–62

Source: ACB

Playoffs

Main article: 2012 ACB Playoffs

Quarter Finals			Semifinals			Finals


1	FC Barcelona Regal	2

8	Lucentum Alicante	0
			1	FC Barcelona Regal	3

			4	Valencia Basket	1
4	Valencia Basket	2

5	Lagun Aro GBC	1
						1	FC Barcelona Regal	3

						2	Real Madrid	2
2	Real Madrid	2

7	Banca Cívica	0
			2	Real Madrid	3

			3	Caja Laboral	2
3	Caja Laboral	2

6	Gescrap Bizkaia	0

Stats Leaders

Performance Index Rating

Rank	Name	Team	Rating	Games	PIR
1.	James Augustine	UCAM Murcia	631	34	18.6
2.	Kaloyan Ivanov	Lucentum Alicante	576	33	17.5
3.	Andy Panko	Lagun Aro GBC	579	34	17.0
4.	Joel Freeland	Unicaja	516	31	16.6
5.	Paul Davis	Banca Cívica	480	29	16.6

Points

Rank	Name	Team	Points	Games	PPG
1.	Andy Panko	Lagun Aro GBC	643	34	18.9
2.	Justin Doellman	Assignia Manresa	570	34	16.8
3.	Mirza Teletović	Caja Laboral	555	34	16.3
4.	Paul Davis	Banca Cívica	423	29	14.6
5.	Bracey Wright	CAI Zaragoza	480	33	14.5

Rebounds

Rank	Name	Team	Rebounds	Games	RPG
1.	James Augustine	UCAM Murcia	283	34	8.32
2.	Kaloyan Ivanov	Lucentum Alicante	255	33	7.73
3.	Joel Freeland	Unicaja	231	31	7.45
4.	Paul Davis	Banca Cívica	215	29	7.41
5.	Latavious Williams	FIATC Mutua Joventut	241	34	7.09

Assists

Rank	Name	Team	Assists	Games	APG
1.	Javi Rodríguez	Assignia Manresa	181	29	6.24
2.	Javi Salgado	Lagun Aro GBC	148	34	4.35
3.	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid	143	34	4.21
4.	Andrés Rodríguez	Blu:sens Monbús	130	33	3.94
5.	Sergio Rodríguez	Real Madrid	130	34	3.82

Awards

Regular season MVP

Andrew Panko – Lagun Aro GBC^[20]

All-ACB team

Position	Player	Team
PG	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid
SG	Sergi Vidal	Lagun Aro GBC
SF	Andrew Panko	Lagun Aro GBC
PF	Mirza Teletović	Caja Laboral
C	Erazem Lorbek	FC Barcelona Regal

ACB Rising Star Award

Micah Downs – Assignia Manresa

Best Coach

Xavier Pascual - Regal FC Barcelona^[21]

MVP Week by Week

Date	Player	Team	PIR
1	Kyle Singler	Lucentum Alicante	32
2	Boniface N'Dong	FC Barcelona Regal	29
3	Rudy Fernández	Real Madrid	35
4	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona Regal (2)	28
5	Paul Davis	Banca Cívica	36
6	Nando de Colo	Valencia Basket	37
7	Hervé Touré Rafael Hettsheimeir	Blancos de Rueda Valladolid CAI Zaragoza	32
8	Kaloyan Ivanov	Lucentum Alicante (2)	33
9	Gustavo Ayón	Mad-Croc Fuenlabrada	43
10	Kaloyan Ivanov (2)	Lucentum Alicante (3)	34
11	Kaloyan Ivanov (3)	Lucentum Alicante (4)	42
12	Marquez Haynes	Gran Canaria 2014	32
13	Bracey Wright	CAI Zaragoza (2)	40
14	Justin Doellman	Assignia Manresa	41
15	Andy Panko	Lagun Aro GBC	32
16	Josh Asselin Paul Davis (2)	Assignia Manresa (2) Banca Cívica (2)	34
17	D'or Fischer	Gescrap Bizkaia	38
18	Stephane Lasme	Blu:sens Monbús	37
19	D'or Fischer (2)	Gescrap Bizkaia (2)	33
20	Mirza Teletović	Caja Laboral	32
21	James Augustine	UCAM Murcia	30
22	Sergi Vidal	Lagun Aro GBC (2)	30
23	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid (2)	27
24	Marko Banić	Gescrap Bizkaia (3)	29
25	Jaycee Carroll	Real Madrid (3)	39
26	Aaron Jackson Erazem Lorbek	Gescrap Bizkaia (4) FC Barcelona Regal (3)	28
27	Curtis Borchardt	Blancos de Rueda Valladolid (2)	27
28	Luka Žorić	Unicaja	33
29	Sergio Llull (2)	Real Madrid (4)	31
30	Boniface N'Dong (2)	FC Barcelona Regal (4)	31
31	Juan Carlos Navarro (2)	FC Barcelona Regal (5)	42
32	Andy Panko (2)	Lagun Aro GBC (3)	28
33	James Augustine (2)	UCAM Murcia (2)	35
34	Spencer Nelson Germán Gabriel	Gran Canaria 2014 (2) Asefa Estudiantes	29

Player of the month

Month	Week	Player	Team	PIR
October	1–5	Joel Freeland	Unicaja	26.3
November	6–9	Gustavo Ayón	Baloncesto Fuenlabrada	24.25
December	10–13	Kaloyan Ivanov	Lucentum Alicante	26.5
January	14–18	Justin Doellman	Assignia Manresa	25
February	19–21	Sergio Llull	Real Madrid	21.7
March	22–26	Sergi Vidal	Lagun Aro GBC	21
April	27–32	Boniface N'Dong	FC Barcelona Regal	18.2
April	33–34	James Augustine	UCAM Murcia	30.0

Last updated: 28 February 2012.
Source: ACB

References

↑ Endesa y ACB alcanzan un acuerdo histórico para el baloncesto español ACB.com 21 July 2011
↑ La Asamblea General de la ACB aprobó los puntos del orden del día ACB.com 22 July 2011
↑ Paco Olmos, new coach of Power Electronics Valencia ACB.com 6 June 2011
↑ Pablo Laso, new coach of Real Madrid ACB.com 21 June 2011
↑ Salva Maldonado, new coach of Club Joventut Badalona ACB.com 4 July 2011
↑ Sito Alonso will be the new coach of Lagun Aro GBC for the next two season GBC website. 19 July 2011
↑ Luis Casimiro, presentado como nuevo entrenador del Blancos de Rueda CB Valladolid. 20 July 2011
↑ Porfirio Fisac, nuevo entrenador del Baloncesto Fuenlabrada Baloncesto Fuenlabrada website. 1 August 2011
↑ Pepu Hernández entrenará al Asefa Estudiantes Estudiantes website. 2 August 2011
↑ Paco Olmos es destituido como entrenador del Valencia Basket Valencia BC website. 22 January 2012
↑ Velimir Perasovic nuevo entrenador del Valencia Basket Valencia BC website. 26 January 2012
↑ Cese de Luis Guil CB Murcia website. 30 January 2012
↑ Óscar Quintana nuevo entrenador del UCAM Murcia CB Murcia website. 31 January 2012
↑ Luis Casimiro destituido como entrenador del Blancos de Rueda CB Valladolid website. 30 January 2012
↑ Roberto González será presentado mañana como entrenador del Blancos de Rueda CB Valladolid website. 1 February 2012
↑ Pepu Hernández no continuará al frente de Asefa Estudiantes ACB.com. 6 March 2012
↑ Trifón Poch entrenará al Asefa Estudiantes hasta el final de la temporada ACB.com 7 March 2012
↑ El Unicaja destituye a Chus Mateo Baloncesto Málaga website. 19 March 2012
↑ Luis Casimiro, nuevo entrenador de Unicaja ACB.com 20 March 2012
↑ ACB.com (Spanish)
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